| MAMMALIA.[1] |
| Man | 1 |
| Gainsborough's Joke—Skull of Julius CÆsar when a boy | 2 |
| Sir David Wilkie's simplicity about Babies | 3 |
| James Montgomery translates into verse a description of Man, after the manner of LinnÆus | 4 |
| Addison and Sir Richard Steele's Description of Gimcrack the Collector | 5 |
| Monkeys | 9 |
| The Gorilla and its Story | 9 |
| The Orang-Utan | 11 |
| The Chimpanzee | 12 |
| Letter of Mr Waterton | 20 |
| Mr Mitchell and the Young Chimpanzee | 22 |
| Lady Anne Barnard pleads for the Baboons | 24 |
| S. Bisset and his Trained Monkeys | 25 |
| Lord Byron's Pets | 26 |
| The Ettrick Shepherd's Monkey | 27 |
| The Findhorn Fisherman and the Monkey | 29 |
| "We ha'e seen the Enemy!" | 29 |
| The French Marquis and his Monkey | 30 |
| George IV. and Happy Jerry.—Mr Cross's Rib-nosed Baboon at Exeter Change | 31 |
| The Young Lady's pet Monkey and the poor Parrot | 33 |
| Monkeys "poor relations" | 34 |
| Sydney Smith on Monkeys | 34 |
| Mrs Colin Mackenzie on the Apes at Simla | 35 |
| The Aye-Aye, or Cheiromys of Madagascar | 36 |
| Bats | 38 |
| One of Captain Cook's Sailors sees a Fox-Bat, and describes it as a devil | 39 |
| Fox Bats (with a Plate) | 41 |
| Dr Mayerne and his Balsam of Bats | 47 |
| Hedgehog | 48 |
| Robert Southey to his Critics | 48 |
| Mole | 49 |
| Mole, cause of Death of William III. | 49 |
| Brown Bear | 56 |
| The Austrian General and the Bear—"Back, rascal, I am a general!" | 58 |
| Lord Byron's Bear at Cambridge | 59 |
| Charles Dickens on Bear's Grease and Bear-keepers | 59 |
| A Bearable Pun | 60 |
| A Shaved Bear | 61 |
| Polar Bear | 61 |
| General History and Anecdotes of Polar Bear, as observed on recent Arctic Expeditions (with a Plate) | 61 |
| Nelson and the Polar Bear | 194 |
| Jekyll on a Squirrel | 195 |
| Pets of some of the Parisian Revolutionary Butchers | 195 |
| Sir George Back and the poor Lemming | 196 |
| McDougall and Arctic Lemming | 197 |
| Rats and Mice | 198 |
| Duke of Wellington and Musk-Rat | 200 |
| Lady Eglinton and the Rats | 200 |
| General Douglas and the Rats | 201 |
| Hanover Rats | 202 |
| Irishman Shooting Rats | 203 |
| James Watt and the Rat's Whiskers | 204 |
| Gray the Poet compares Poet-Laureate to Rat-catcher | 204 |
| Jeremy Bentham and the Mice | 205 |
| Robert Burns and the Field Mouse | 206 |
| Fuller on Destructive Field Mice | 208 |
| Baron Von Trenck and the Mouse in Prison | 209 |
| Alexander Wilson, the American Ornithologist, and the Mouse | 211 |
| Hares, Rabbits, Guinea-Pig | 212 |
| William Cowper on his Hares | 213 |
| Lord Norbury on the Exaggeration of a Hare-Shooter | 220 |
| Duke of L. prefers Friends to Hares | 221 |
| S. Bisset and his Trained Hare and Turtle | 221 |
| Lady Anne Barnard on a Family of Rabbits all blind of one eye | 222 |
| Thomas Fuller on Norfolk Rabbits | 222 |
| Dr Chalmers and the Guinea-Pig | 223 |
| Sloth | 224 |
| Sydney Smith on the Sloth—a Comparison | 224 |
| The Great Ant-Eater (with a Plate) | 225 |
| Elephant | 229 |
| Lord Clive—Elephant or Equivalent? | 230 |
| Canning on the Elephant and his Trunk | 232 |
| Sir R. Phillips and Jelly made of Ivory Dust | 233 |
| J. T. Smith and the Elephant | 234 |
| Sydney Smith on the Elephant and Tailor | 235 |
| Elephant's Skin—a teacher put down | 236 |
| Fossil Pachydermata | 236 |
| Cuvier's Enthusiasm over Fossils | 236 |
| Sow | 238 |
| "There's a hantle o' miscellaneous eatin' aboot a Pig" | 238 |
| "Pig-Sticking at Chicago" | 238 |
| Monument to a Pig at Luneberg | 239 |
| Wild Boar (with a Plate) | |
